Wang had word processors rival against IBM. We had a Wang mini that was doing word processing, Cobalt and FORTRAN. I had my first desktop computer about the same time as IBM’s first pc (8088). It was a NEC APC (8086), CP/M-86 with dual 8” floppy drives, no hard drive. 5.25” IBM floppy capacities were 166 kb for single density and 360 kb for dual density while 8” floppies for my NEC was 1.2 mb, double sided, double density. I’ve seen 8” floppies in place of 5.25 floppies on an IBM machine.
@HoneycombAgent troll ? LMAO !!! are You fucking retarded ? I guess You have never seen Beavis & butthead & lack any sort of creative sense of humor what so ever. MY GOD !!! where the hell do You lame ass people come from ? It's like trying to enjoy Your dinner & it's raining turds. People like You suck & everyone hates You. Just so You know! dip shit !
Sir, I tip my hat. I've seen a lot of Wang in my time, but this is by far the largest and most impressive that I have ever had the privilege of having laid eyes upon.
@kisapedra Though you can probably store all the data ever put on all the 8" disks in the world on a microSD card that takes up the space of about a single 256-byte sector on that thing!
It would be awesome if one cd drive manufacturer created an 8 inch cd and a large external 8 inch cd drive that is backwards compatible with standard cds with a storage capacity of 1Terrabyte.
Not only that its big but loud as when the large cd starts to spin up it would shake your computer plus the spin up sequence will take more time than a standard cd drive and also seek times would be slow and the cache should be 500GB.
Very cool. I have a floppy disk from London from a place called Crosfield electronics ltd. The disk single side, single density and has 128 bytes. It has 26 sectors. Also is has a label that says "btc0971 f/disk scanning station. Im guessing its a program disk for the computer graphics equipment that they manufactured. This disk is HUGE. The history of floppy disks and computers is really interesting.
@DarthSkywalker354 May not be directly relevant, but for comparison the 8" drive in a piece of medical equipment I used to operate claimed to store 256kb... Plenty enough for loading the simple OS & programs onto its huge, noisy, and probably only ~10mb hard disk :-)
(... in 2005, no less... but, it worked, and would have cost twenty grand or more to replace, which is money that the NHS doesn't often have)
Damn that looks the size of a record, I laugh my ass every time I see a 8" Floppy Disk,also that stupid Twiggy disk by apple, its just a two headed 5 1/4". I guess im just old because when people now see a zip disk they think its a fat 3 1/3 disk or don't even know what a 3 1/3 disk is !
By the way I think Wang made tape drives and tapes about 1983 / 1985 or so but I never used them. I have the drive but don't think by Wang in a Compaq 8087 as the E: or D: drive but no storage tapes for it.
I found and bought an 8 inch drive at a surplus store with its own power supply, so that is not the problem. I need to make something that turns the cable into the standard floppy ribbon cable. Does anyone know how to do this? Such as what the pinouts are and which should go with which.
@DarthSkywalker354 It may depend on the age because AFAIK the first 5.25" drives were basically shrunk down copies of 8" ones, from capacity to layout to signalling. An old enough PC BIOS (like, 1990s) will still contain routines to access 8 inchers, so I'm told ... later models using the 5.25" one, early models using specific ones.
Wang may have had wierd ways of accessing equipment but I can't see why a device for storing digital data hooked up to a digital computer would use analogue signals?
can you burn a music on those diskettes???
mp1101ful 5 hours ago
WANG Floppy diskettes LOL
narcoti 2 months ago
What a big floppy disk form factor!
gdm413229 2 months ago
Wang had word processors rival against IBM. We had a Wang mini that was doing word processing, Cobalt and FORTRAN. I had my first desktop computer about the same time as IBM’s first pc (8088). It was a NEC APC (8086), CP/M-86 with dual 8” floppy drives, no hard drive. 5.25” IBM floppy capacities were 166 kb for single density and 360 kb for dual density while 8” floppies for my NEC was 1.2 mb, double sided, double density. I’ve seen 8” floppies in place of 5.25 floppies on an IBM machine.
kimchee94112 3 months ago
Didn't WANG make an NVIDIA graphics card?
Nicholasc99 7 months ago
They need to re-make this thing. :) In the future it can store more than one TB :D
(my dreams)
tungskyline 8 months ago
"Saving photo... Please Wait." You have 0Bytes left... me:ugh.. time to get another disk.
faxmanloveswaffles 8 months ago
Wow, big floppy disks!
Bluerooster100 9 months ago
BAHAHAHAHAHA! "Wang"....
DoloresHaze84 1 year ago
I used to have them on my 286 compuyer long back ...
Aahh, remembered my school days :)
It was really fun using them back then, Sad now floppy is getting outdated :(
kaRanRoyaLjaNissaRy 1 year ago
8" floppies. Now thats something you don't see every day.
Jonhny2 1 year ago
My mom have that big-ass floppy disk last 30 years ago. Before they released a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk, she threw it.
jason24568 1 year ago
WOW
peywich 1 year ago
huh huh huh... huh huh huh .. uhhh huh.. He's got an 8 inch floppy wang. lol
wingnut4427 1 year ago 13
@wingnut4427 He said DISKS not d**ks, you dumbass troll.
HoneycombAgent 4 months ago
@HoneycombAgent troll ? LMAO !!! are You fucking retarded ? I guess You have never seen Beavis & butthead & lack any sort of creative sense of humor what so ever. MY GOD !!! where the hell do You lame ass people come from ? It's like trying to enjoy Your dinner & it's raining turds. People like You suck & everyone hates You. Just so You know! dip shit !
wingnut4427 4 months ago
@HoneycombAgent ohh You were just messing with me ? o.k. lol
wingnut4427 4 months ago
I'M ALSO VERY PLEASED TO SEE THIS COLLECTION OF WANG - "How disturbing!? - Be careful what you wish for..."
DiskTwenty 2 years ago
lol, I bet when the 5 1/4 came out everybody was like 'wow these things are awesome!'
sinephase 2 years ago
Sir, I tip my hat. I've seen a lot of Wang in my time, but this is by far the largest and most impressive that I have ever had the privilege of having laid eyes upon.
10mintwo 2 years ago
That is freaking amazing, I feel like ordering a few from ebay just so me and my friends could beat each other up with them.
Liynkx 2 years ago
all BIG ASS floppys for the win i hate thouse sdthigys :P
kisapedra 2 years ago 7
@kisapedra Though you can probably store all the data ever put on all the 8" disks in the world on a microSD card that takes up the space of about a single 256-byte sector on that thing!
TahreyUK 9 months ago
1TB single side
2TB double side
i wish that kind of disk and drive is released!
jobert512 2 years ago
unfortunatly, floppies are dead. i love em though. Floppy discs FTW!! CDs DTH! (down to hell)
MrGoomba909 2 years ago
It would be awesome if one cd drive manufacturer created an 8 inch cd and a large external 8 inch cd drive that is backwards compatible with standard cds with a storage capacity of 1Terrabyte.
jobert512 2 years ago
that would make my life Complete! but i'd need to get a new computer to fit the huge drive in :\
MrGoomba909 2 years ago
Not only that its big but loud as when the large cd starts to spin up it would shake your computer plus the spin up sequence will take more time than a standard cd drive and also seek times would be slow and the cache should be 500GB.
jobert512 2 years ago
thats one big ass floppie disk lmao
30GB 2 years ago
Very cool. I have a floppy disk from London from a place called Crosfield electronics ltd. The disk single side, single density and has 128 bytes. It has 26 sectors. Also is has a label that says "btc0971 f/disk scanning station. Im guessing its a program disk for the computer graphics equipment that they manufactured. This disk is HUGE. The history of floppy disks and computers is really interesting.
TheSynthFreq 2 years ago
its fake it dont have a spinner in the center
CAFcorey 2 years ago
umm only 3 1/2 had spinners
jasonisroxursox 2 years ago
only 3 1/2 had spinners.
XxSTICH666xX 2 years ago
Hello, Do you have any ideas where I can get 8" floppy medias , primary for my vintage DEC-RX02 drive ?
PDP11GY 2 years ago
I have a lot of 5 inch floppys (they even have stuff on them), but I've never really seen an 8 inch.
Racecar564 2 years ago
what was the storage in it?
BryanBeatsYouAll 3 years ago
im not exactly sure because i don't have a drive nor a computer that supports analog floppy cables, but id say something like 160 KB
DarthSkywalker354 3 years ago
just go to some of pc (or a museum) store, and they maybe godt a usb floppy driver
brage49 3 years ago
the real size is:
100KB single sided
200KB double sided
jobert512 2 years ago
@DarthSkywalker354
NO. 160 KB is the lowest format for 5,25" DD Disk on IBM comp. This 8" can handle 64kb.
michaelboett173 1 year ago
@DarthSkywalker354 aHahahaha
W8st3d 1 year ago
@DarthSkywalker354 May not be directly relevant, but for comparison the 8" drive in a piece of medical equipment I used to operate claimed to store 256kb... Plenty enough for loading the simple OS & programs onto its huge, noisy, and probably only ~10mb hard disk :-)
(... in 2005, no less... but, it worked, and would have cost twenty grand or more to replace, which is money that the NHS doesn't often have)
TahreyUK 9 months ago
100KB single density
200KB double density
if the heads were the same to a 3.1/2 inch floppy then the capacity would be:
100MB single density
200MB double density
if the head was from a zip drive then:
100GB single
200GB double
jobert512 2 years ago
0.o bigger han my floppy disk's
ashthepokemonmaster 3 years ago
where you can plug 8" diskettes?
reinoreiness 3 years ago
LOL wang. i've got an 8 inch wang
arsenal553 3 years ago
i never heard about wang... btw those disks are amazing! i would like to be in the old computer times... old pcs are much cooler than our pcs today
Messerschmitt262a2a 3 years ago
Damn that looks the size of a record, I laugh my ass every time I see a 8" Floppy Disk,also that stupid Twiggy disk by apple, its just a two headed 5 1/4". I guess im just old because when people now see a zip disk they think its a fat 3 1/3 disk or don't even know what a 3 1/3 disk is !
By the way I think Wang made tape drives and tapes about 1983 / 1985 or so but I never used them. I have the drive but don't think by Wang in a Compaq 8087 as the E: or D: drive but no storage tapes for it.
Draikar 3 years ago
wang?
ericaesop 3 years ago
You don't know Wang? Wang where the best ;)
reblives 3 years ago
i prefer scotch
ericaesop 3 years ago
thats a monster and it looks like a 51/4 inch floppy.
NOOBNUT08 3 years ago
I found and bought an 8 inch drive at a surplus store with its own power supply, so that is not the problem. I need to make something that turns the cable into the standard floppy ribbon cable. Does anyone know how to do this? Such as what the pinouts are and which should go with which.
pastageek 3 years ago
i wish you could but im sure it requires cable modding because it uses analog signals where the 5.25" and 3.5" use digital
DarthSkywalker354 3 years ago
@DarthSkywalker354 It may depend on the age because AFAIK the first 5.25" drives were basically shrunk down copies of 8" ones, from capacity to layout to signalling. An old enough PC BIOS (like, 1990s) will still contain routines to access 8 inchers, so I'm told ... later models using the 5.25" one, early models using specific ones.
Wang may have had wierd ways of accessing equipment but I can't see why a device for storing digital data hooked up to a digital computer would use analogue signals?
TahreyUK 9 months ago
i am looking for a way to modify a 8inch floppy drive so it works on xp and vista.
you know, wang computer prouducts are always rising in price.
popmomcorn 3 years ago
well, it could be done with much pain, see the 8in floppy drive uses a non-standard power supply and cables so it wont connect easy
DarthSkywalker354 3 years ago
@DarthSkywalker354 Can you install Call of Duty 2 on an 8 inch floppy?
rotenburk 1 year ago
Wow.. So there still are some of these big beasts arond? I thought all of them found their way to the junkyard.
Vyggy 4 years ago
these will never be in the junkyard while under my possession :)
DarthSkywalker354 4 years ago
I'm going to get a 5 1/4" Floppydrive and 5 1/4" Floppy Disks for my birthday ^____^
spongekopschwammbob 4 years ago
plz join the winXP psp project this is not spam just my other account
winxppspproject 4 years ago
Floppy Floppies!! :)
Nimsoft 4 years ago
its amazing what you cam find on ebay
DarthSkywalker354 4 years ago
yea they are old they flop alot they just kept the name when thay made the 2nd & 3rd version
DarthSkywalker354 4 years ago
YES I GET TO DO THE VERY 1ST COMMENT!
thjis is awesome!!!!!!!!! it so BIG and floppy.
sparky4444444444444 4 years ago
wait How easyly it flops?
sparky4444444444444 4 years ago